In an interview for the Parisian daily paper Libération concerning his latest book The challenge of hatred. Essay on the refusal of violence (L'Épreuve de la haine: Essai sur le refus de la violence, Paris 2016), which will be the starting point for the Conrad Festival meeting, Crépon said: „I wrote this book because the experience of violence drives the daily unrest today. It is enough to switch on the TV, radio or computer to be flooded with stories full of violence, not only concerning wars and terror, but all forms of violence, including verbal, social and intimate violence that knocks at the door. We are under the impression today that violence has superposed itself on reality and that reality is all violence. I wanted to understand what the common denominator was for all those forms of violence.”

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